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We love winners, even though they’re very rarely particularly likeable people. They’re almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn’t matter. We forgive them. We like them while they’re winning.
“Conscience is always enlightened when sin is seen as hurting someone we love. No sin can touch one of God’s stars or silence one of His words, but it can cruelly wound His heart. Once the Penitent understands this truth, he can see why he has such emptiness and desolation and his soul: he hurt the one he loves.”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
“We pray not in order to achieve divine union - we achieved that in baptism - but to develop it.”
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“The son of God chose Peter, who knew sin, rather than the beloved John, as the rock upon which to build His Church, that sinners and the weak might never have excuse to despair.”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
“What have I done to deserve this’ if a cry of pride. What did Jesus do? What did Mary do? Let there be no complaint against God for sending a cross; let there only be wisdom enough to see that Nary is there making it lighter, making it sweeter, making it hers”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
“The man who says, ‘I am so stupid,’ instead of ‘Lord be merciful to me, I sinner,’ is still far from rebirth.”
― The Priest Is Not His Own
― The Priest Is Not His Own
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